On Nov 10, 2007 8:23 PM, Andoni OConchubhair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all,
hi andoni > I also have aspirations towards one day doing some Open Source > development, though I am told that despite email being my area in > professional life, I should start with a project that is only starting > out rather than a developed project like James. (i'm not sure that i agree with that general advice - IMO development model and activity are crucial) apache uses open development. project should be open to new ideas and developers. business is conducted in public on mailing lists so it's relatively easy to browse the archives and see how a project works in practice. (see http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html and browse http://www.apache.org/dev/) parts of JAMES are mature but JAMES is a long way from being finished. JAMES trunk is definitely under active development. we've moved towards a more modular system to allow more experimental code to be developed on the trunk. there has been a noticeable upturn in activity and interest over the last few months. IMHO this is a great time to start helping to develop JAMES. > PS: I have set Followup-To: to the User's list as though it were a > newsgroup. Not sure if the software will respect that! :-) if you're interested in development, make sure you subscribe to the development list. once you're on list, don't stand on ceremony. feel free to jump in whenever you think you can make a contribution to a debate whether with code or design. the JAMES development team is global so UML or a code outline is often better than prose when discussing a design (but this is often true in any case). - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
